As you may be aware, most of the criminal element in San Francisco during the early 1850s was thought to be (and probably was) Australian, dubbed the 'Sydney Ducks'. I have a copy here of Herbert Asbury's _The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld_ (copyright 1933), and it has a number of depressing-yet-amusing anecdotes about these characters.
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timeasmymeasure
Pouched Rats
Date: 2010-02-16 08:28 pm (UTC)